{"id":1643,"date":"2012-05-12T08:56:31","date_gmt":"2012-05-12T12:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=1643"},"modified":"2012-05-16T09:02:59","modified_gmt":"2012-05-16T13:02:59","slug":"1-chronicles-22-not-a-god-of-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=1643","title":{"rendered":"(1 Chronicles 22) Not a God of violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>And David said to Solomon: \u201cMy son, as for me, it was in my mind to build a house to the name of the Lord my God;\u00a0\u00a0but the word of the Lord came to me, saying, \u2018You have shed much blood and have made great wars; you shall not build a house for My name, because you have shed much blood on the earth in My sight.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This verse gives some insight into the fact that our God is not a God of violence.\u00a0 David was God&#8217;s man, and his life as a warrior was blessed by God.\u00a0 Still, it disqualified him from building the temple of the Lord.<\/p>\n<p><em><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And David said to Solomon: \u201cMy son, as for me, it was in my mind to build a house to the name of the Lord my God;\u00a0\u00a0but the word of the Lord came to me, saying, \u2018You have shed much blood and have made great wars; you shall not build a house for My name, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=1643\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;(1 Chronicles 22) Not a God of violence&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1643"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1645,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643\/revisions\/1645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}